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| Title | Religious Zeal After Goal Frustration |
| Creator | McGregor, Ian
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| Symposium | Extremism and the Psychology of Uncertainty
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| Series | Claremont Graduate University's Stauffer Symposium Series
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| Date | 2008-04-06 |
| Subject-LCSH | Religion
Frustration
Uncertainty
Panic
Anxiety
Psychology
Threat
Hate
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| Subject-Local | Extremism
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| Description | Dr. Ian McGregor's most recent research investigates personality and social psychological causes of religious extremism. Based on over a dozen laboratory experiments he has found that various psychological threats cause people to go to extremes. Threats that have caused extremism in our research include experimental manipulations of uncertainty, failure, confusion, relationship dissatisfaction, mortality salience, system injustice, and feelings of personal insignificance. In his talk Dr. McGregor presents evidence for a basic, goal-regulation explanation for how such diverse threats can interchangeably cause such diverse forms of extremism. New research demonstrates that threats cause extremism to the extent that the threats undermine personal goals. Goal threats introduce approach-avoidance conflicts between desire to continue approaching the goal and desire to avoid further frustration. |
| Publisher | Claremont Graduate University. School of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences |
| Language | eng
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| Source | Original video: 60 minute digital 8mm cassette; Tape 10; recorded symposium presentation entitled, "Religious zeal after goal frustration" from the symposium entitled, "Extremism and the Psychology of Uncertainty" April 06, 2008 |
| Relation | Claremont Graduate University Lectures on Applied Psychology and Evaluation Science |
| Rights | : Physical rights are retained by the institution. Copyright is retained in accordance with U. S. Copyright laws. |
| Type | moving image
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| Running time | 00:31:49 |
| Video Format - 40 Kbps | video/mp4 |
| Video Format - 300 Kbps | video/H264; video/quicktime |
| Video Format - 800 Kbps | video/H264; video/quicktime |
| Video Format - LAN | video/H264; video/quicktime |
| Object File Name | lap00039 |
